Xeon W are nine new Intel processors in 14nm, which could have been saved

Even new Intel Xeon W processors can be seen, which are based on 14nm and provide rather little at the moment.

Few things could be less relevant right now than Intel's 14nm processors. Everything suggested that with the arrival of the 10nm Ice Lake-U , Intel's obsolete lithography had been laid to rest. Well, the company has launched nine Cascade Lake processors belonging to the Xeon W family. These processors are characterized by their overclocking support and three frequency ranges. As for what they offer: NOTHING.

Intel adds nine Cascade Lake processors to the Xeon W family

The simplest processor will be the Intel Xeon W-3223 with 8 cores and 16 threads. This processor will work at a base frequency of 3.5GHz, reach 4.0GHz in all its cores and the best of these cores will reach 4.2GHz. It has a 160W TDP and will support up to 1TB @ 2 933MHz of DDR4 RAM.

We will have two completely equal top models. The Intel Xeon W-3275 and the Xeon W-3275M. Both models will have 28 cores and 56 processing threads. They will operate at 2.5GHz, they will be able to reach 4.4GHz in all their cores and the two best cores will reach 4.6GHz. They have a 205W TDP and 38.5MB of L3 cache. They only differ in the amount of DDR4 RAM it will support. The W-3275 supports 1TB @ 2 933MHz and the W-3275M model will support up to 2TB @ 2 933MHz.

We know these processors thanks to Intel's ARK, where all the data of the company's processors appears. According to the ARK, none of these processors support Optane DC Persistent Memory. The ARK also highlights that all of these processors have 64 PCIe lanes instead of the usual 48 PCIe from Intel Xeon.

Perhaps the question is, what do these processors paint on the market with the announcement of the EPYC Rome? Intel seems to continue a bit lost and overtaken by events.

Source: G3D